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Is this an easter egg or something. What is the AI smoking lol.
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Kersch posted:Basically I want to set up a monthly direct deposit into wiz's bank account and then have him keep tweaking war/units/leaders/combat endlessly This is called buying all the DLC.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:08
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kukrunkarmaskin posted:Well my last Re-reconquista run ended in tears when everyone declared on me at the same time, this one though is actually not going horribly. Yet. Get those juicy Mexican gold provinces asap.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:09
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Larry Parrish posted:Is this an easter egg or something. What is the AI smoking lol. Vassal Byzantium did the same thing in my game and kept loving up my peace deals.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:14
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Wiz posted:Perhaps opinions on Estates might differ a bit depending on what you want out of the game, rather than there being an objectively correct Good or Nongood stance? Most people seem to like them, but they *are* a bit of a divergence from the earlier War focused theme of the game, so it's to be expected everyone won't love them.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:22
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That's not actually the case at all though?
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Dec 17, 2015 22:25
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You shouldn't really be skirting the line so close that an event can gently caress you up that badly. Keep at 40% loyalty or higher and 70% influence or lower, and keep your "+10 loyalty/influence" decision as an emergency button rather than spamming it every time it's available. And view estate loyalty as the extremely valuable commodity that it is.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:26
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VDay posted:That's not actually the case at all though?
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Dec 17, 2015 22:28
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Larry Parrish posted:Is this an easter egg or something. What is the AI smoking lol. Historical AI settings looking good!
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Dec 17, 2015 22:29
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Larry Parrish posted:Is this an easter egg or something. What is the AI smoking lol. They're clearly on an achievement run this time.
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Dec 17, 2015 22:35
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Tsyni posted:Get those juicy Mexican gold provinces asap. I did, thanks!  I've just westernzed, currently sitting on 8 gold mines. I'm going to grab 3 more mines in the south after the truce with Pacajes ends meaning I'll have 11 mines  . I think I'm just gonna catch up in mil tech and then go for it. Will probably try to grab a foothold in Europe and then ally the Ottomans. This thing might actually work out!
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Dec 18, 2015 00:15
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MrChips posted:I don't mind the new estate system, but for me it suffers from the same problem as the faction system; I basically set it to one group and forget about it forever. You interact with the Estates a lot the more you play outside of Western Europe. The Clergy, for example, is pretty pointless if you're sitting in Italy but amazingly useful if you're, say, Ethiopia where you can really leverage the -2 Unrest and +2 Missionary Strength as you move out of Coptic lands and into the Sunni dominated areas. Then you watch as the Ottomans choke on the Noble empowered Forts in the Levant as Austria and Poland carve their way through Asia Minor. kukrunkarmaskin posted:Well my last Re-reconquista run ended in tears when everyone declared on me at the same time, this one though is actually not going horribly. Yet. Does the new Historical AI rivalry thing prevent you from having the Castille vs Aragon clusterfuck over Navarre now?
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Dec 18, 2015 01:38
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Speaking of which, I noticed that in my game, all of the European powers aren't all constantly allied, which is pretty nice.
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Dec 18, 2015 01:52
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Thinking about the state of the game at the moment (and ignoring estates, which I feel just needs a bit of tweaking but are otherwise fun), about the only things I'm unhappy with are: a) No horsetrading in peace deals. History is filled with far too many examples of "I'll give you this but you have to give me that" to make me happy with an all-dominance-or-all-defeat peace system. b) Battles take way too long. Absurdly, ahistorically long. I'm tired of watching as armies walk across half of France in time to show up and save the day in my Somme-like multi-week campaigns in 1600. I don't like that I can do it to others either. Malplaquet and Waterloo each lasted a day. Leipzig in 1813 had over a half-million men and was over in four. Xotl fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Dec 18, 2015 |
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Dec 18, 2015 02:12
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The Imperial Liberation CB being used to conquer stuff always makes thigns weird in my games. Austria shouldn't randomly have like enclaves everywhere and have this considered proper HREing.
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Dec 18, 2015 02:15
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Gorelab posted:The Imperial Liberation CB being used to conquer stuff always makes thigns weird in my games. Austria shouldn't randomly have like enclaves everywhere and have this considered proper HREing. Eh,  I feel you but the HRE having really hosed up borders isn't exactly ahistorical.
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Dec 18, 2015 02:21
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Xotl posted:b) Battles take way too long. Absurdly, ahistorically long. I'm tired of watching as armies walk across half of France in time to show up and save the day in my Somme-like multi-week campaigns in 1600. I don't like that I can do it to others either. Malplaquet and Waterloo each lasted a day. Leipzig in 1813 had over a half-million men and was over in four. I always figured they were supposed to be an abstraction of a series of battles across the province in question, not a single field battle.
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Dec 18, 2015 02:22
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Bold Robot posted:Eh, I'd be slightly more okay if it generally wasn't Austria using that one CB. Also I have no idea how Austria can core Pomerania without any land between the two either.
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Dec 18, 2015 02:24
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Fintilgin posted:I always figured they were supposed to be an abstraction of a series of battles across the province in question, not a single field battle. That's how I always thought of it.
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Dec 18, 2015 02:25
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Bold Robot posted:I feel you but the HRE having really hosed up borders isn't exactly ahistorical. No wonder it doesn't exist any more 
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Dec 18, 2015 02:26
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Wafflecopper posted:No
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Dec 18, 2015 02:41
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God, just imagine World War 1 and 2 if the HRE was still around.
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Dec 18, 2015 02:52
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Xotl posted:Thinking about the state of the game at the moment (and ignoring estates, which I feel just needs a bit of tweaking but are otherwise fun), about the only things I'm unhappy with are: My thoughts exactly. Horsetrading is tricky just because it's really hard to teach the AI what deals it should and shouldn't accept, but as long as only other provinces could offset province cost it might work. And of course you have to stop the player from trying to give it's allies land away to enable their gains. I too am super sick of the way battles work. I have no issue with battles being abstracted to taking place over multiple days, but as it is they take so long that people can and will march across whole continents to enter an ongoing battle. That's a really dumb meta. I'd much rather see serious supply line mechanics and more isolated battles. Bold Robot posted:Eh, The thing that's hosed up is the way Austria will immediately conquer it's way across southern Germany to link up with Briesgau, and that the HRE doesn't do poo poo about it. There's no way they should be able to do that and hold the Imperial crown. Them using Imperial CBs to conquer stuff on the northern coast isn't a lot better either. Give the Emperor permanent access to HRE lands (which he already has while at war), and disable the code that makes AI countries try to link themselves up if their capital is in the HRE.
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Dec 18, 2015 02:55
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I'm not a fan of estates because they don't really create many interesting choices. There is a pretty clear optimal route and it just creates another set of numbers I have to babysit.
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Dec 18, 2015 03:08
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Snatch Duster posted:you have autism estates are fine they're not bad, they just really don't add much to the game
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Dec 18, 2015 03:27
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So I still haven't figured out how to set a province as "I'm interested in owning this"
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Dec 18, 2015 03:31
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:So I still haven't figured out how to set a province as "I'm interested in owning this" Go to your diplomacy screen, furthest tab to the right. Then just click on the provinces.
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Dec 18, 2015 03:41
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If I want to play an Austria game where I unite the HRE, how important is keeping Italy in the empire? I tried once before and it was just an AE filled slog. Can I just let Italy do its thing?
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Dec 18, 2015 04:08
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 I think the cossacks might have gotten a little too enthusiastic about Catholicism.
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Dec 18, 2015 04:26
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First time playing outside Europe: what's the strategy on dealing with big tropical jungle forts? My force limits aren't that high, so it seems like if I get bad luck with disease (which seems to happen every time, is there a tropical bonus for it or something?) my stack will get murdered by attrition before the fort can fall (it starts at like -70%).
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Dec 18, 2015 05:16
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Got a great selection of advisors just now:
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Dec 18, 2015 05:31
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John Wilkes Booth posted:Got a great selection of advisors just now:
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Dec 18, 2015 05:52
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Strudel Man posted:...does that last guy have an alias? He is an artist, those guys loved aliases.
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Dec 18, 2015 06:00
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Strudel Man posted:...does that last guy have an alias? The more important question is, what is it? It is tail something.
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Dec 18, 2015 06:02
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Michault le Caron aka Tailsluver430xxx Putting your deviantart handle on your resume is getting popular.
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Dec 18, 2015 06:09
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Redmark posted:First time playing outside Europe: what's the strategy on dealing with big tropical jungle forts? My force limits aren't that high, so it seems like if I get bad luck with disease (which seems to happen every time, is there a tropical bonus for it or something?) my stack will get murdered by attrition before the fort can fall (it starts at like -70%). My solution to this is to keep a vassal around (doesn't have to be the same one, you can absorb and then acquire a new one as needed) that will attach to one of your stacks and ruin their own manpower for you. The level 3 forts are a huge pain if you haven't gotten cannons yet.
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Dec 18, 2015 06:17
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John Wilkes Booth posted:If I want to play an Austria game where I unite the HRE, how important is keeping Italy in the empire? I tried once before and it was just an AE filled slog. Can I just let Italy do its thing? Not at all important. Keeping them in is a ton of effort that's better spent elsewhere.
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Dec 18, 2015 06:38
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Strudel Man posted:...does that last guy have an alias? Just a shame it's not one of the other names available.
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Dec 18, 2015 06:47
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PittTheElder posted:I too am super sick of the way battles work. I have no issue with battles being abstracted to taking place over multiple days, but as it is they take so long that people can and will march across whole continents to enter an ongoing battle. That's a really dumb meta. I'd much rather see serious supply line mechanics and more isolated battles.
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Muscovy got sick and this neat Orthodox horde emerged: It has a couple problems, though. Like not having any ruler names.  It also doesn't exist at all in the game files. Did rebels create a custom nation?
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